Your pre-autumn spin-of-the-week ...
For some reason, Justin's hubris and complete inability to do anything right now grates on people, not like it should have in 2013:
Cabinet yesterday expressed shock and surprise over the loss of a must-win Liberal byelection in the Prime Minister’s hometown. Justin
Trudeau and 15 cabinet ministers personally canvassed in the Montréal
riding of LaSalle-Émard-Verdun: “We need people to understand.”
I think people understand that things are now too expensive and that their frat-boy prime minister would rather blame everyone else for these predictable failures:
“We
need people to be more engaged. We need people to understand what’s at
stake in this upcoming election. Obviously, it would have been nicer to
win and hold Verdun, but there’s more work to do and we’re going to stay
focused on doing it.”
Words, words, words.
What Justin will never admit is that people, even in his own party, have grown tired of his failures. He chooses to blame other for not giving him what he wants.
It takes a special kind of narcissist to blame everyone other than himself for his shortcomings (I am being charitable here). Such a person is unfit to lead.
Further:
Actually,
people fully understand what’s at stake in the upcoming election. The
LaSalle byelection was about Trudeau, the St. Paul’s byelection was
about Trudeau, and the general election will be about Trudeau. Voters
don’t want four more years, or even two more years of him. It’s been
fun, please exit the ride now sir, your time is up.
None of these things help win votes. And none of these things happen if a leader has the respect of his party.
Meanwhile,
the Bloc Québécois benefitted from the rise of Parti Québécois fortunes
in the province. They also mined the newfound clout the Bloc has in
Ottawa since NDP leader Jagmeet Singh ripped up the party’s Supply and
confidence agreement with the Liberals. Bloc leader Yves François
Blanchet promised to deliver for Quebec by holding the Liberals to
ransom — and now he has one more foot soldier to do it.
The votes weren't for confidence in the NDP or the Bloc but a repudiation of Justin:
Just as with Toronto-St. Paul’s, the loss in LaSalle-Émard-Verdun was particularly
scary to Liberal insiders because of where it happened. Even in some of
the Liberals’ most dire opinion polls of the last 12 months, the party
was usually slated to continue winning seats in Montreal. As with
Toronto, the Quebec metropolis has represented the country’s most
reliable base of Liberal support ever since the Trudeau government took
power in 2015.
These same dolts will prop up the Liberals once more when the non-confidence motion comes around:
Poilievre promised he would bring such a motion at the first chance he had, after the NDP ended its supply-and-confidence deal with the Liberals earlier this month. It now appears that chance will come on Sept. 24.
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Opposition
parties can introduce motions, including those declaring non-confidence
in the government, on specific days designated in the House of Commons
calendar.
The
number of opposition days and which party they go to is determined at
the start of a session, and the actual days are scheduled by the
government.
During
a meeting of House leaders on Tuesday, the government told the other
parties that the first of five opposition days for the Conservatives
this fall will be next week.
That means a debate on the Tory motion is likely to happen Sept. 24 and the vote would be the following afternoon.
The schedule for next week will be confirmed in the House of Commons on Thursday.
Poilievre
brought a non-confidence motion in March, asking opposition parties to
join him in triggering a “carbon tax election,” but the NDP and Bloc
Quebecois joined the Liberals in voting the motion down.
NDP
Leader Jagmeet Singh has said that without the supply-and-confidence
deal his caucus will take each vote as it comes. He has also repeatedly
said Canadians have lost faith in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the
Liberals.
NDP
Leader Jagmeet Singh confronted a gaggle of protesters on Tuesday after
one of them was heard to call him a “corrupted bastard.”
Accompanied
by a staffer, Singh was walking towards the West Block of Parliament,
tailed by two men recording him from cell phones.
“Are you voting non-confidence today?” asks one. “Corrupted bastard,” says another.
The latter comment prompts Singh to stop and turn around, saying, “You want to say something?”
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“Who said that? You got something to say?” adds the NDP Leader as he approaches the pair.
One
of the men, dressed in a light-blue shirt and a bandanna, replies, “I
didn’t say corrupted bastard … somebody behind me said that.”
Singh
then turns his attention to a man in a Toronto Maples Leaf hat and
wearing a T-shirt reading, “Unmuzzled Unmasked Unvaccinated Unafraid.”
Stooping slightly to meet the man’s eyeline, Singh asks, “Was it you?”
“No,” replies the man, who has busied himself with his smartphone.
“You sure?” says Singh, prompting an, “If it was me I would admit it, buddy.”
The
party leader then takes a step forward towards the man, asking again,
“Was it you or not?” yielding the reply, “If it was me I’d admit it.”
The man in the Maple Leafs hat then offers, “It was the gentleman behind
me, I guess.”
After
unsuccessfully asking the man to point “the gentleman” out, Singh then
lifts a finger to the man’s face saying, “You’re a coward; you’re not
going to say it to my face.”
Step away from your bodyguards then, Mr. Rolex.
Mark Carney is another one who should never helm this country's economy:
Foster notes that “Carney has been a prime pusher of ‘net-zero,’ the
notion that climate-related human emissions must be entirely eradicated,
buried or offset by 2050 if the world is to avoid climate Armageddon.”
A
central aspect of the “net-zero” agenda is the rapid phase out of
fossil fuels. Clearly then, his agenda poses a threat to Alberta’s
economy and prosperity. Despite the fact that Carney grew up in
Edmonton, he doesn’t demonstrate much concern for this province.
Carney’s
emphasis on fighting climate change leads Foster to quote the famous
American writer H. L. Mencken as saying that: “The urge to save humanity
is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule.”
That
statement applies in this context because the “Carney-backed agenda is
not predicated on working through democratic institutions but on
circumventing them.”
More particularly, “Carney’s plan is to
control the global economy by seizing the commanding heights of finance,
not by nationalization but by exerting non-democratic pressure to
divest from, and stop funding, fossil fuels. The private sector is to
become a partner in imposing its own bondage. This will be
do-it-yourself totalitarianism.”
Indeed, in a country dominated by
policies designed to alleviate climate change, citizens will have less
choices (consider the current war against single-use plastics,) less
transportation (e.g., no more gasoline cars,) less meat (cattle release
carbon emissions, after all), and less conveniences in general, but more
poverty (due to deindustrialization.)
As Foster notes, Carney’s
ideology embraces what libertarian economist Friedrich Hayek called the
“fatal conceit” of constructivist rationalism: “the belief that the
largely spontaneous institutions of the market order should be rejected
in favour of more deliberately planned arrangements.”
That is,
give the government enough power, and central planners can arrange
society — by force — into something much better than the supposed
anarchy of a free society.
Um, tyranny.
Justin has doubled the national debt:
Pop the champagne! It’s now official. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has doubled the federal debt. It took nearly two dozen prime ministers and a century and a half for the federal government to rack up $616 billion
in debt, which is where the total stood before Trudeau’s first year in
office. But less than a decade later, on Aug. 30 of this year, the debt
has officially doubled to $1.232 trillion. That’s according to
calculations done by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation based on annual
debt increases outlined in the government’s latest budget.
The Trudeau government’s debt binge has had, and will continue to have, a material impact on Canadians’ lives.
We
all want to leave our kids and grandkids a bright financial future. But
a baby born today is already on the hook for about $30,000 in federal
government debt. That debt may never fully be paid back: Canada’s
federal debt has never
been zero, though at times it has been very low. But even if it’s
entirely rolled over and not a penny of it paid back, the debt will
generate continuing interest payments, which means higher taxes for
future generations unless future governments cut spending and run
surpluses.
In this regard, the future looks
bleak. New data from the Parliamentary Budget Officer doesn’t see a
balanced federal budget until 2040.
That would mean another $296 billion added to the debt between now and
then — even assuming the government introduces no new spending and the
economy grows for 16 years straight.
The federal government’s debt interest charges already cost taxpayers more than $1 billion every week. The government now wastes more money
servicing the debt than it sends to the provinces in health transfers.
Paying debt interest takes every penny collected from the GST.
The economy has regressed from the wallet outward.
YAY!
But consider the voters blocks:
This low-wage labor comes at a high cost
for those Canadians trying to enter the labor market, however.
Employers use TFWP as a business model, pricing out unskilled domestic
workers. What does this look like in practice? Your local restaurant
hires foreigners, leaving your teenaged kid without summer work, without
employment experience, and eventually, living in your basement. It is
also bad for the foreign workers. I know from experience that, in many
cases, they are effectively paid below minimum wage, because they are
forbidden from taking breaks, they work unreasonably long hours, and
they live in employer-owned accommodations while rent is deducted from
pay. This is tantamount to indentured servitude. A recent United Nations
report exaggerated when it included the TFWP among modern examples of slavery, but only somewhat.
I wouldn't say somewhat.
We don't have to trade with China:
The federal agency that investigates election infractions found
insufficient evidence to support suggestions Beijing wielded undue
influence against the Conservatives in the Vancouver area during the
2021 general election.
Rather, no one wants the evidence found.
**
MPs are vulnerable to electronic surveillance by foreign agents, the
chair of the Commons national defence committee said yesterday.
Testifying at the Commission on Foreign Interference, Liberal MP John
McKay (Scarborough-Guildwood, Ont.) said Chinese hacking of his own
cellphone may have exposed contacts he built up through nine terms in
Parliament: “Maybe I am just being paranoid.”
Tell me again that these people are not delusional bullies:
Calgary transgender activist Victoria Bucholtz made a spectacle at a
public meeting she was in with Alberta Independent MLA Jennifer Johnson
(Lacombe-Ponoka) after she refused to recognize transgender women as
women.
But they aren't.
It's called grooming:
With
the help of a teacher in York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB),
her parents were kept in the dark about her use of “they/them” pronouns
and a new masculinized name in the classroom. Only in June 2022 did her
parents learn what was quietly going on in school. When they objected
and asked school leaders to include them in conversations about their
daughter, the school called the Children’s Aid Society (CAS), which
investigated the family.
In
December 2023, Julie detransitioned after realizing she’d been swept up
in a social fad that overlooked her underlying mental health issues.
Now, her family is raising the alarm about the power schools have to
keep parents in the dark.
The courts are setting a dangerous precedent where express wishes can be over-ridden and property dispersed because they and not the owner says so:
A B.C. Supreme Court judge found that family assets weren’t evenly
distributed after the death of Yat Hei Law, the mother of Ginny Lam and
William Law. Under the will, about $2.9 million was left to the son,
$170,000 to daughter ...
It's called communism.
Speaking of communists:
If Kamala had truly become a prosecutor to protect women and girls,
she was doing a poor job of it. A 10% increase in rapes was bad enough,
but the numbers were even worse in context.
In 2010, when Kamala first ran for attorney general, there had been
8,325 rapes in the state. By 2016, when Kamala was fighting to take Sen.
Barbara Boxer’s seat, there were 13,695 rapes.
This was not a 10% increase, but a shocking 64% increase.
Kamala, who claimed to be crusading for women, had presided over the
single largest increase in sexual assaults on women in the state in a
generation. The 34.87 per 100,000 statewide rape statistic people put
Kamala’s California well above the national average of 29.6.
Why was California so bad for women under Attorney General Kamala Harris?
Kamala Harris did not become a prosecutor to protect women, but to
protect criminals. The 64% increase in rapes on her watch was a symptom
of that larger problem. Alongside notorious Soros DAs like George
Gascon, she led a rebrand of soft on crime policies as ‘smart on crime’.
This would also become the title of her book arguing for keeping many
criminals out of prison.
Among other things, ‘Smart on Crime’ meant cutting quick and easy
plea deals while working as the DA in San Francisco to maintain the
appearance of the high conviction rates that she would cite when running
for attorney general. The plea deals that her office later cut
statewide, including for her political ally Mayor Bob ‘Filthy’ Filner,
cooked statistics by raising conviction rates and lowering prison
populations to create the illusion that pro-crime policies worked.
By the time Attorney General Kamala Harris was ready to move on from
the Senate, arrest rates had fallen to their lowest point since 1969
while violent crime soared. Even as violent crime rates increased,
arrests continue to fall with catastrophic results for public safety in
the state.
Did Kamala actually have any special feeling for women who had been sexually assaulted?
Proposition 57, one of the pro-crime propositions that ended public
safety in the state backed by key donors who would prove crucial to her
political career, offered a painfully stark choice.
The pro-crime proposition granted early release for criminals
convicted of a crime not officially listed as a “violent felony.” That
included not only many violent criminals, but also some rapists who
committed different kinds of sexual assaults including ‘rape with a
foreign object’.
Attorney General Harris had become notorious for abusing her position
to write heavily distorted summaries for pro-crime propositions. And
Proposition 57 was no different. The debate over Prop 57 provided Kamala
the opportunity to stand with her pro-crime backers or with women.
And now for something completely interesting:
“We know that inbreeding reduces genetic diversity in a population,
which can be detrimental to their ability to survive if it occurs over a
longer term.”
Unlike modern humans, who are more
connected, the results from analyzing Thorin “supports the notion that
social organization of Neanderthals was different to early modern
humans,” said Sikora.
There is evidence of early modern
humans in Siberia “forming so-called mating networks to avoid issues
with inbreeding, while living in small communities,” said another
researcher from the University of Copenhagen Tharsika Vimala.
But that behaviour was not found among Neanderthals.
“This
is some of the evidence that we were looking for and needed to figure
out how likely this hypothesis of them going extinct because of their
isolated lifestyle is,” said Vimala, adding that more genomic data is
needed to “paint a better picture of their history.”
The same people who had music, roasted their food and had funerary rites.
But I digress ...
